Creating shortcuts

[Nat Gross]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 13:18 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
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>>Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>>Nat Gross wrote:
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>>>>2. re: shortcuts. How do I get my link to display the true path? I 
>>>>have a symlink to /usr/share/xxx. When I browse this (also at a 
>>>>terminal prompt) , it shows the path as 
>>>>"/home/nat/Desktop/theLinkName", but many times I prefer to have it 
>>>>show the true path, "/usr/share/xxx".
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>>>Re: appearance on the desktop; no idea (I never create shortcuts on 
>>>the desktop myself - just out of habit rather than because I think 
>>>it's a bad thing to do [which I don't]). At the terminal prompt, if 
>>>you use the "-L" option to "ls", it'll show you details of the file 
>>>being linked to rather than the details of the link itself.
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>>>Paul.
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>>I meant something else. If you cd into the link, or if you click on the 
>>link from a file browser,  although the link target is indeed displayed, 
>>the path displayed in the browser (or as part of the PROMPT in terminal) 
>>is the link name, not the real target path.
>>(Desktop was just an example. This is true regardless of location.)
>>[By the way, this is not a high-priority question. Just a quickie, if 
>>possible.]
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>You could fix this at the command line by using "cd `pwd`". You'd have
>to fiddle with aliases for "cd" in your ~/.bashrc to have this happen
>automatically.
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>Paul.
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Thanks for the idea.
(For some reason, Thunderbird's 'unread flag' filter did not display 
your message, until I noticed it today 'manually'.)
-nat